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First post, by corvinus

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Hi,

1. Initially I wanted to report that image pages linked on Scaler page don't contain images and show errors like this:
Error creating thumbnail: File seems to be missing: /var/www/dosbox.com/wiki/images/c/c7/Scaler-normal2x.png

2. Having clicked "About DOSBoxWiki" link to find out where it's better to report, it showed that page was deleted with following truncated message:
"What is the purpose of this page? Especially taking into consideration the fact that the only ..."

Don't know what was the missing purpose of that page, but I think best purpose would be to give general information on the wiki, such as where to report small issues.

3. Trying to write message to WikiSysop whose username was convinienly mentioned on the above page, I found out that it's impossible to contact him without registering, which I think isn't good either.

4. Finally, trying to register at wiki I wasn't able to acquire password using the instruction on forum. Maybe I'm not smart enough. It kept saying wrong or missing confirmation code. I tried different letter cases.

Sorry for so many complaints, but I think this chain of issues prevents useful feedback, especially from casual users like me.

I just used DosBox for the first time for the game 'Ugh!' and it runs wonderfully (faster than dosemu), and is a beautiful game by the way. So I decided to dig in DosBox settings, and therefore encountered all this.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

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the password is around 5 threads above yours.
I've fixed the images.

Water flows down the stream
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Reply 2 of 6, by corvinus

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And anyways, how about having defined way for feedback without registration? This way users wouldn't just hit a brick wall like I had when reporting nuisances.

Thanks for fixing images.

Reply 3 of 6, by Qbix

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we have mail and forum.
The wiki needs some extra protection because of the huge amount of bots trying to get in.

I see the problem with the passwords you tried. I removed them from your post, but your first attempt should now work.

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Reply 4 of 6, by corvinus

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Well, forum is linked at wiki but email is not, suggesting this isn't proper way to contact. I noticed your funny picture for email on main site. :)

Password worked, thanks.

Reply 5 of 6, by Qbix

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Thank you for reporting the problems that you found. I take that the biggest issues are now taken care off ?
Broken images and unable to login ?

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Reply 6 of 6, by corvinus

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Yes, indeed.